Well-meaning nondisabled people don’t realize what they’re playing into when they talk about how inspiring we are, which is perhaps all the more frustrating.
disability
disability rights
To be a disabled child, or a disabled adult who needs supportive care, is to know that your life is literally in the hands of the people you rely on to love and care for you. And those people may well think that murdering you would be doing you a favor.
how not to be a dick
There’s no need for you to speak more loudly and slowly, enunciate more, or mime things when you’re speaking to me
anonymity
A couple of years after I started blogging, you’d pop up every so often -- always under the ever-so-clever Anonymous moniker, of course -- with a comment about how I looked or a dig at my disability.
chronic illness
When you’re young and you have issues with your mobility that aren’t obviously signposted by something visible like crutches or a cast, it brings you up against some fairly unpleasant attitudes.
disney world
HAVE YOU BEEN OUTRAGED BY THIS YET? Unfortunately, you're probably angry for all the wrong reasons.
disability
I don’t want to brag on my fellow crips or nothin’, but some of us have way better sex than nondisabled people. Hate to break it to you, but them’s the facts.
freeman sheldon syndrome
I was sure my physical disability was my embarrassing beauty mark. No, not beauty mark. Ugly mark.
deaf
Don't whisper. Also don't shout. And if you... speak... like... this... I will punch you.
canes
There’s this perception that the lives of the disabled are somehow diminished, or that we carry some weight or sadness inside, and I want to dispel that.
suicide
There are a few topics that, as a general rule, I just refuse to discuss on the Internet. Assisted suicide/right-to-die is usually one of them.
ableism
You messed up big time, and you should own it.
disability
My severe hearing loss has certainly not helped my career.
disability
Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.
disability
They seem to think they're joking around when they ask me how many fingers, or if I can smell them from across the room, but to me it feels similar to the bullying I experienced on the playground as a child.
ableism
I’m a disabled person, and I actually wholly support prenatal screening and full access to prenatal care, because I think it can result in healthier pregnancies and better outcomes for both pregnant people and infants.
s.e. smith in
Issues,
ableism,
bodies are not political footballs,
disability,
politics,
pro-choice,
reproductive health,
reproductive justice
Feb 21, 2012 at 12:30pm | 110 comments
disability
I was about 17 when I learned about the social model and it radically changed how I thought about my own body.
careers
I decided to talk to some disabled researchers, academics, and more to find out more about the specific problems disabled STEMers face -- and how to fix them.
body politics
As I go under, I will be thinking about the thousands of people who did not undergo this procedure voluntarily, about the thousands in the future who will be forced, deceived, or compelled into sterilisation.
disability
The strangest compliment I've ever received was: “You don't look like you're in a wheelchair.”
disability
I have long-standing relationships that never recovered from my diagnosis and friendships which have never been the same after reactions to my use of various aids, medications or therapies.
ableism
It’s exciting to see fashion designers picking up on the expressed desire to see disabled models, and thinking about integrating them into their campaigns.
